About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
Tag Archives: remix
Danger: Hippies
When @cogdog points out something online, I try to pay attention. So when he highlighted the Internet Archive’s filmstrip collection, I took a look. https://mastodon.social/@cogdog/108204893865114931 The Hippies caught my eye. It’s a somewhat strident and paranoid view of 60s counterculture, … Continue reading
Fab Freddie
I found another artist working in a remix/mashup vein, going by the handle Stuff_by_Mark: Killer Queen. A stupid drawing by a stupid man. pic.twitter.com/Og3mkYeAUm — Stuff_By_Mark (@The_Ren1981) October 29, 2021 He may have thought this Freddy/Freddie mashup was stupid, but … Continue reading
Art Rock
Our friends at Radio Eugene shared a happy little ditty from Soundcloud the other day: https://twitter.com/RadioEUG/status/1422570912335814664 I had a folder full of Bob Ross quotes that I had been looking to use. My thought was to make some Garageband beats … Continue reading
Saturday Night Taxi
I was challenged the other week to remix Taxi Driver with the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. I wasn’t able to build on my previous experiment, unfortunately, so I had to leave in Herrmann’s sax music in some spots. Hopefully it … Continue reading
Remix, quick-draw style
Earlier today, Jim tweeted some pictures of architecture around his ‘hood. One in particular caught my eye: The crying eyes of Medusa. pic.twitter.com/WMMsHw0ZQ3 — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) April 2, 2016 Medusa makes me think Harryhausen, so I had to try … Continue reading